UNDAGGED SHEEP.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1498, 22 July 1912, Page 8

UNDAGGED SHEEP.

SLAUGHTER-IiEX'S COMPLAINTS JUSTIFIED. The general otiitvinn of freezing companies in this island is that there is reason in the slaughtermen's complaints about undagged. sheep haing sent to the ivorks 'It is" understood Ilv.it the companies aro •all desirous that no undagged sheep should reach the slaughtermen, as this is absolutely nec;s=ary if thorough cleanliness is to be observed in the dressing process. With the A. and P. associations, the freezing companies, and the slaughtermen all wcrking in the one direction, farmers will no doubt, be impressed with the necessity for taking notice of the complaints'mado in reference to sending in undagged animals. *

"Thinking well is wise; planning well is wiser; doing well is wisest and test of till." Factory managers who are convinced of the' superiority of "Victor" Vats and who mean to instill them had .better place their orders at once. About 70- Vats .are now on order, but no difficully will be experienced in fulfillin;,' contracts made early. Despite the strike in England complete arrangements have been made for full .supplies of the best materials for "Victor" Vats. Get into cointnunioa.h'on with the inaiiufaolurer (<iI dav.. Albert ,1. Parton, Carterton.

LIVE STOCK SALES. Messrs. Dalgely and Company. Ltd. (Palmorston North branch), report':—At our Fcilding sale on Friday, we had a very fair vaa-ding of stock, which sold as lielow.—Small ewe lamb?, Sis. lid.; lair mixed lambs, 12s. to 12s. 6d.; [rood ewe lambs, to 145.; cull empty ewes, ss. 4d.; l'onvardewes, to lie. 6d.; light fat owes, to 153. 3d.; mixed apie ewes in. lamb, to 13s. Ed.; tour to sixtooth and l.f.m. ewes, in lamb, to 17s. 3d. (tattle-Bulls, 275.; liK'ht fat cows to £5 10s.; backward dairy heifers, £4 17s. to £5 55.; fair dairy heifers, £5 15s. to £6 ss. Mr. Newton King's weekly stock report is cm follows:—At Ma.ta. Eltham. on Jlondav. July 15, notwithstanding the wretched weather, I had a very cood attendance of buyers at Jlrs. M. l'orbes's clearing s.ile. The cows, which were of mixed ages, realised, for best, from £10 ss. to £15 Its.; good. £7 10s. to £9 155.; second wade, £5 ss. to £6 15;. At my Kahotu yards on I had a. fair entry, with a fair demand for all classes throughout. Mixed woaners, 15s. to £1 35.; yearling steers, £1 lis. to .£2 13s. 6d.; yearling heifers, £2 18s. to £3 55.; yearling bulls, £2 13s. 6d.; bulls, £4 to £5; aged cow, £1 10s.; store cows, £3 to £4 55.; fat cows, small, £5 Ss.; empty twenty-months heifers, £3 lis. 6d.; guaraiitoed dairy cows', best, from £7 to £9; others, £4 to £4 10s.; in-calf lwifers, £5 to £5 10s.; lino of dairy cows. £9 10s.; gelrtinga, £15 to £17. At Mr. Crisp's clearing sale en Tuesday morning at I'imgarelm. store cows realised from £1 2s. 6d. to £3 12s. 6d.; in-calf two-year heifers, £4 135.; yearling heifers, £3 3s-.: mixed yearlings. £2 Is. to £2 lis.; calvers, £10: dray, £14; mare, £24; gelding, .Jill: sundries at satisfactory rates. On 'Wednesday. July 17. 1 held (in conjunction with the Xew Zealand Loan 'Go., Jlawen) a clearing sale en account of Mr. 0. N. Bell. Matapn. There w'as a very good attendance, and a (rood demand through-Mit for, the cows. wk.Vh sold as follow :-Choice cows, from £13 10s. to £17; first-clapi cows. £9 to £12 55.; others. £5 to £7 55.; hulls, £2 Us. to. £5.